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How Much Will Solo Make WW?

Under $700M 56 60.87%
 
$700M-$800M 18 19.57%
 
$801M-$900M 12 13.04%
 
$901M-$1B 3 3.26%
 
Over $1B 3 3.26%
 
Total:92
thismeintiel on 27 May 2018

Looks like the answer is yes. Solo launched at an abysmal $148.3M WW. This is $6.8M less than RO made just at the DBO. For the whole comparison, this is $141.7M less than RO's WW debut.  Keep in mind that this film needs ~$700M to break even on production and marketing cost and Disney was expecting ~$300M WW opening weekend. 

Congrats, Kathleen Kennedy and crew. With your SJW agenda first, movie second, it looks like you have done something even Lucas couldn't do with his underwhelming prequels, make the first SW flop.



 

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Azuren on 27 May 2018
KLAMarine said:
Good job Kathleen... Doing an excellent job sinking the Star Wars IP.

Yeah. People wanted to argue with Last Jedi bring bad, but this seems to be the definitive answer to "Should Kathleen be replaced?"

 

The answer is a resounding yes. 



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HomokHarcos on 27 May 2018
thismeintiel said:

Looks like the answer is yes. Solo launched at an abysmal $148.3M WW. This is $6.8M less than RO made just at the DBO. For the whole comparison, this is $141.7M less than RO's WW debut.  Keep in mind that this film needs ~$700M to break even on production and marketing cost and Disney was expecting ~$300M WW opening weekend. 

Congrats, Kathleen Kennedy and crew. With your SJW agenda first, movie second, it looks like you have done something even Lucas couldn't do with his underwhelming prequels, make the first SW flop.

It's not just the agenda or politics of the films. I think them turning the series into an annual Call of Duty-like cash cow kills the hype too.

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Mr.Playstation on 27 May 2018

A film series going from a 2 billion film, to a box office flop in a mere 2 1/2 years is astonishing. We won't see this kind of drop until Avatar 2 and 3 get released. Will most probably end up being the least grossing blockbuster released this summer [Compared to A:IW, Deadpool 2, Ant-Man and the wasp, The Incredibles 2 and Jurassic World]. 

Two B-Side hero movies, an animated film and a film series with 1/10th the history of star wars destroying a star wars movie, who would have thought. 

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thismeintiel on 27 May 2018
HomokHarcos said:
thismeintiel said:

Looks like the answer is yes. Solo launched at an abysmal $148.3M WW. This is $6.8M less than RO made just at the DBO. For the whole comparison, this is $141.7M less than RO's WW debut.  Keep in mind that this film needs ~$700M to break even on production and marketing cost and Disney was expecting ~$300M WW opening weekend. 

Congrats, Kathleen Kennedy and crew. With your SJW agenda first, movie second, it looks like you have done something even Lucas couldn't do with his underwhelming prequels, make the first SW flop.

It's not just the agenda or politics of the films. I think them turning the series into an annual Call of Duty-like cash cow kills the hype.

Nope. Marvel proves that it can be done. The movies just have to be good. Marvel also has messages most can agree with. I think they also keep a tighter control on those making the film. Basically, don't insult the fans of your series. At the very least, don't point to our films as agreeing with or pushing your political leanings. 



 

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VGPolyglot on 27 May 2018
thismeintiel said:
HomokHarcos said:

It's not just the agenda or politics of the films. I think them turning the series into an annual Call of Duty-like cash cow kills the hype.

Nope. Marvel proves that it can be done. The movies just have to be good. Marvel also has messages most can agree with. I think they also keep a tighter control on those making the film. Basically, don't insult the fans of your series. At the very least, don't point to our films as agreeing with or pushing your political leanings. 

Marvel has a much larger cast of established characters, whereas Star Wars has historically been focused on a central plotline rather than Marvel which does not have a main character.



Maxosaurus-rex on 27 May 2018
VGPolyglot said:
thismeintiel said:

Nope. Marvel proves that it can be done. The movies just have to be good. Marvel also has messages most can agree with. I think they also keep a tighter control on those making the film. Basically, don't insult the fans of your series. At the very least, don't point to our films as agreeing with or pushing your political leanings. 

Marvel has a much larger cast of established characters, whereas Star Wars has historically been focused on a central plotline rather than Marvel which does not have a main character.

Han has been established in 4 main line movies before getting his spin off



VGPolyglot on 27 May 2018
Maxosaurus-rex said:
VGPolyglot said:

Marvel has a much larger cast of established characters, whereas Star Wars has historically been focused on a central plotline rather than Marvel which does not have a main character.

Han has been established in 4 main line movies before getting his spin off

But he was not the main character of the franchise: Luke Skywalker and Anakin Skywalker are. It's not like Marvel where there are tons of people with their own comic lines.



Maxosaurus-rex on 27 May 2018
VGPolyglot said:
Maxosaurus-rex said:

Han has been established in 4 main line movies before getting his spin off

But he was not the main character of the franchise: Luke Skywalker and Anakin Skywalker are. It's not like Marvel where there are tons of people with their own comic lines.

People buying comics are in a very niche market. The masses watching them on screen dont care about that



VGPolyglot on 27 May 2018
Maxosaurus-rex said:
VGPolyglot said:

But he was not the main character of the franchise: Luke Skywalker and Anakin Skywalker are. It's not like Marvel where there are tons of people with their own comic lines.

People buying comics are in a very niche market. The masses watching them on screen dont care about that

But they are still familiar with the characters at least, Iron Man, Spider-Man, Hulk, Captain America, etc. were well-known before the MCU began.